1. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is an engineered wood product that is rapidly gaining popularity in Europe and North America as a sustainable alternative to concrete and steel construction in commercial and multi-residential applications. Generally, there are two types of cross-laminated timber (CLT) such as adhesive-bonded CLT and mechanically fastened CLT. Adhesive-bonded CLT is a common cross-laminated timber (CLT). In 2016, sales of adhesive-bonded CLT took a share of 91.38%.
2. Global major cross-laminated timber (CLT) production regions are Austria, Germany and other Europe region. Austria is a largest produce country. Global consumption regions are also concentrated in Europe. In 2016, Austria consumed about 41.40% of global total consumption. Germany consumed about 169.6 K Sq.m, with a share of 15.55%.
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3. During past six years, global cross-laminated timber (CLT) sales increased from 723.7 K Sq.m in 2011 to 1090.3 K Sq.m in 2016, with an average increase rate of 8.54%. In the future, global consumption will continue to increase. By 2022, global consumption will be 1753.7 K Sq.m.
4. Global major manufacturers are Stora Enso, Binderholz, KLH Massivholz GmbH, Mayr-Melnhof Holz, MHM Abbund-Zentrum, Hasslacher Norica, Merk Timber, Lignotrend, Eugen Decker, Thoma Holz, Schilliger Holz, W. u. J. Derix, HMS Bausysteme Gmh and Structurlam etc. Total sales of those companies took a share of 60.56% in 2015. Market concentration in this industry is high. In the future, there will be more and more company entering this industry.

1. The global Crown Moulding production market was 1785 M Meter in 2016 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.7% from 2012 to 2016. The global Crown Moulding market was valued at USD 5.8 billion in 2016 and is expected to reach USD 7.9 billion by 2022. Overall, the Crown Moulding products performance is positive with the global economic recovery.
2. The technical barriers of Crown Moulding are relatively low, and the major countries are China, North America, Europe, China is the largest consumer, almost 25.07% of total consumption in 2016, followed by Europe with 22.99% of consumption share.
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3. Crown Moulding has a wide range of applications. Crown Moulding is used in Interior Decoration, Exterior Decoration. Therefore, growing demand for commercial and residential buildings has driven the growth of global Crown Moulding market. The demand for Crown Moulding is expected to continue increasing during the remaining years of the forecast period of 2017-2022. Crown Moulding industry will be used in a stable growth space.

The next major volcanic eruption could kick-start chemical reactions that would seriously damage the planet's already besieged ozone layer.
The extent of damage to the ozone layer that results from a large, explosive eruption depends on complex atmospheric chemistry, including the levels of human-made emissions in the atmosphere. Using sophisticated chemical modeling, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Maryland explored what would happen to the ozone layer in response to large-scale volcanic eruptions over the remainder of this century and in several different greenhouse gas emission scenarios. The research was published recently in Geophysical Research Letters.
Earth's stratosphere is still recovering from the historic release of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone-depleting chemicals. Even though CFCs were phased out by the Montreal Protocol 30 years ago, levels of chlorine-containing molecules in the atmosphere are still elevated. Explosive volcanic eruptions that inject large quantities of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere facilitate the chemical conversion of chlorine into more reactive forms that destroy ozone.
Researchers have long known that when concentrations of chlorine from human-produced CFCs are high, ozone depletion will result following a volcanic eruption. When levels of chlorine from CFCs are low, volcanic eruptions can actually increase the thickness of the ozone layer. But exactly when this transition happens -- from eruptions that deplete ozone to eruptions that increase ozone layer thickness -- has long been uncertain. Previous research has put the window of the transition anywhere between 2015 to 2040.
The Harvard researchers found that volcanic eruptions could result in ozone depletion until 2070 or beyond, despite declining concentrations of human-made CFCs.
"Our model results show that the vulnerability of the ozone column to large volcanic eruptions will likely continue late in to the 21st century, significantly later than previous estimates," said David Wilmouth, who directed the research and is a project scientist at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
So, why is this shift happening so much later than previously thought?
"Previous estimates did not take into account certain natural sources of halogen gases, such as very-short lived bromocarbons originating from marine plankton and microalgae," said Eric Klobas, lead author and Harvard chemical physics PhD candidate.
Accounting for these emissions fine-tunes the timing of the shift from eruptions that cause ozone depletion to eruptions that increase the thickness of the ozone layer. These natural sources of bromine become especially important in the lower stratosphere after concentrations of human-emitted CFCs have declined.
"We found that the concentration of bromine from natural, very short-lived organic compounds is critically important," said Klobas. "Even small, part-per-trillion changes in the amount of bromine from these sources can mean the difference between a late 21st century volcanic eruption resulting in ozone column depletion or ozone column enhancement."
The researchers then explored how a volcanic event the size of the Mount Pinatubo eruption, which shot about 20 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere in 1991, would impact the ozone layer in 2100. The team modeled four different greenhouse gas emission scenarios, ranging from very optimistic to what is commonly considered the worst-case scenario.
The team found that the most optimistic projection of future greenhouse gas concentrations resulted in the most ozone depletion from a volcanic eruption. Conversely, in the pessimistic scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase rapidly throughout the 21st century, a Mount Pinatubo-size eruption would actually lead to a slight increase in ozone. The researchers found that the colder stratospheric temperatures and higher methane levels in this scenario would curb important ozone-depleting chemical reactions.
But, here's the kicker: all of the above scenarios assumed that the volcanic eruption would only inject sulfur into the stratosphere, like the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. If the eruption were to also inject halogen-containing chemicals such as hydrogen chloride (HCl) into the stratosphere, the results could be dire.
"If volcanic halogens, which are commonly present in large quantities in volcanic eruptions, were to partition substantially into the stratosphere -- in any greenhouse gas emission scenario, at any point in the future -- it would potentially cause severe losses of stratospheric ozone," said Klobas.
In such a case, the United States could see a prolonged and significant decrease in ozone layer thickness -- upwards of 15 to 25 percent in the highest halogen scenario modeled. Even small reductions in the thickness of the ozone layer, which shields the surface of the Earth from DNA-destroying ultraviolet radiation, can adversely impact human health and other life on this planet.
"These eruptions are highly unusual events but the possibility does exist, as evidenced in the historical record," said Wilmouth.
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Certain home shapes and roof types can better resist high winds and hurricanes, according to a researcher at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Civil engineer Rima Taher, PhD, special lecturer in the New Jersey School of Architecture at NJIT. She spent two years examining the findings of research centers that have studied the best designs and construction materials and methods needed to withstand extreme wind events and hurricanes.
"Although I'd like to say that there is a simple and economical solution for housing that won't fail or collapse in the perfect storm, such information does not yet exist," said Taher. "However, it is obvious that thanks to the work of wind engineers and researchers that changes to home design and construction can make buildings safer for people, while saving government and industry billions of dollars annually."
"Design of Low-Rise Buildings for Extreme Wind Events" (Journal of Architectural Engineering, March, 2007) by Taher highlighted such research findings. Wind researchers at the Center for Building Science and Technology (CSTB) in France, researched and tested reduced-scale home models at its wind tunnel facilities, and developed a prototype of a "cyclonic" or hurricane-resistant dwelling. Taher cooperated with the CSTB wind researchers, working on the structural aspect of the home's design.
That design eventually became an elevated structure of a square plan form on an open foundation. The home had a hip roof and was equipped with a central shaft with aerodynamic features designed to reduce wind forces during an extreme wind event. Wind tunnel tests at CSTB showed that such a home would be far more efficient under high winds and hurricane conditions than a typical structure. CSTB is working with a builder to construct a prototype of such a home on Réunion in the West Indian Ocean.
From this work and other studies Taher recommends the following construction considerations for homeowners in hurricane-prone regions.
A home with a square floor plan (or better a hexagonal or octagonal plan) with a multiple-panel roof (4 or more panels) was found to have reduced wind loads.
Roofs with multiple slopes such as a hip roof (4 slopes) perform better under wind forces than gable roofs (2 slopes). Gable roofs are generally more common because they are cheaper to build. A 30-degree roof slope has the best results.
Wind forces on a roof tend to be uplift forces. This explains why roofs are often blown off during an extreme wind event. Connecting roofs to walls matters. Stapled roofs were banned following Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1993.
Strong connections between the structure and its foundation and connections between walls are good. Structural failure is often progressive where the failure of one structural element triggers the failure of another, leading to a total collapse. Connections are generally vulnerable but can be inexpensively strengthened.
Certain areas of a building such as the ridge of a roof, corners and eaves are normally subject to higher wind pressures. In the cyclonic home design, CSTB researchers proposed some aerodynamic features to alleviate these local pressures such as introducing a central shaft which would function by creating a connection between the internal space and the roof ridge considered to be the location of the largest depression. This connection helps balance pressures leading to a significant reduction in the roof's wind loads.
Roof overhangs are subject to wind uplift forces which could trigger a roof failure. In the design of the hurricane-resistant home, the length of these overhangs should be limited to 20 inches.
The design of the cyclonic home includes simple systems to reduce the local wind stresses at the roof's lower edges such as a notched frieze or a horizontal grid to be installed at the level of the gutters along the perimeter of the home.
An elevated structure on an open foundation reduces the risk of damage from flooding and storm-driven water.
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The global consumption of metal fencing increases from 765.35 million Linear Feet in 2012 to 1004.92 million Linear Feet in 2016, at a CAGR of 7.05%. The global metal fencing sales market is estimated to be worth 1087.27 million Linear Feet by the end of 2017and to reach 1585.25 million Linear Feet in 2022
According to GlobalInfoResearch,The global metal fencing market is estimated to be worth 10642.41 Million USD by the end of 2017. The market is expected to reach 14070.53 Million USD in 2022 with an average growth rate of 5.74%.
At present, the manufactures of metal fencing are concentrated in North America, Europe, China and Asia(excluding China). In 2016, the global metal fencing consumption market is led by North America (sales market share is 27.75% in 2016), followed by China and Europe.
The production market is rather scattered. At present, the major manufacturers of metal fencing are Betafence, Ameristar Fence, Yehuda Fences, Barrette, Bekaert and Master Halco, which only accounting for about 10 % market share in 2016
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Tiny dents in the surface of graphene greatly enhances its potential as a supercapacitor. Even better, it can be made from carbon dioxide.
A material scientist at Michigan Technological University invented a novel approach to take carbon dioxide and turn it into 3-D graphene with micropores across its surface. The process is the focus of a new study published in the American Chemical Society's Applied Materials & Interfaces.
The conversion of carbon dioxide to useful materials usually requires high energy input due to its ultrahigh stability. However, materials science professor Yun Hang Hu and his research team created a heat-releasing reaction between carbon dioxide and sodium to synthesize 3-D surface-microporous graphene.
"3-D surface-microporous graphene is a brand-new material," Hu says, explaining the material's surface is pockmarked with micropores and folds into larger mesopores, which both increase the surface area available for adsorption of electrolyte ions. "It would be an excellent electrode material for energy storage devices."
Holey Supercapacitors
Basically, a supercapacitor material needs to store -- and release -- a charge. The limiting factor is how quickly ions can move through the material.
The supercapacitive properties of the unique structure of 3-D surface-microporous graphene make it suitable for elevators, buses, cranes and any application that requires a rapid charge/discharge cycle. Supercapacitors are an important type of energy storage device and have been widely used for regenerative braking systems in hybrid vehicles.
Current commercialized supercapacitors employ activated carbon using swaths of micropores to provide efficient charge accumulation. However, electrolyte ions have difficulty diffusing into or through activated carbon's deep micropores, increasing the charging time.
"The new 3-D surface-microporous graphene solves this," Hu says. "The interconnected mesopores are channels that can act as an electrolyte reservoir and the surface-micropores adsorb electrolyte ions without needing to pull the ions deep inside the micropore."
The mesopore is like a harbor and the electrolyte ions are ships that can dock in the micropores. The ions don't have to travel a great distance between sailing and docking, which greatly improves charge/discharge cycles they can steer through. As a result, the material exhibited an ultrahigh areal capacitance of 1.28 F/cm2, which is considered an excellent rate capability as well as superb cycling stability for supercapacitors.
From Thin Air
To synthesize the material from carbon dioxide, Hu's team added carbon dioxide to sodium, followed by increasing temperature to 520 degrees Celsius. The reaction can release heat instead of require energy input.
During the process, carbon dioxide not only forms 3-D graphene sheets, but also digs the micropores. The tiny dents are only 0.54 nanometers deep in the surface layers of graphene.
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United States Wheels & Axles for Railway Market Size reach 807Million USD in 2022
The wheels & axles for railway are expected to grow at a CAGR of 2.2% from 721.95 million USD in 2016 to reach 807.59 million USD by 2022 in United States market. The wheels & axles for railway market is very concerted market; the revenue of top twelve manufacturers accounts about 78% of the total revenue in 2016.
The leading manufactures mainly are Amsted Rail, NSSMC, Taiyuan Heavy Industry, Masteel and GHH-BONATRANS. Amsted Rail is the largest manufacturer; its revenue of United States market exceeds 38% in 2016. The next is NSSMC.
There are mainly two type’s product of wheels & axles for railway market: Rolled Wheels & Axles and Forged Wheels & Axles. Forged Wheels & Axles accounts the largest proportion.
Geographically, the United States wheels & axles for railway market has been segmented into Northeast, South Atlantic, West South Central, East North Central, Pacific and other. The South Atlantic held the largest share in the United States wheels & axles for railway products market, its revenue of total market exceeds 25% in 2016. The next is Pacific region and Northeast region.
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Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other "ocean worlds" in our solar system and beyond. The findings are presented in papers published Thursday by researchers with NASA's Cassini mission to Saturn and Hubble Space Telescope.
In the papers, Cassini scientists announce that a form of chemical energy that life can feed on appears to exist on Saturn's moon Enceladus, and Hubble researchers report additional evidence of plumes erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa.
"This is the closest we've come, so far, to identifying a place with some of the ingredients needed for a habitable environment," said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at Headquarters in Washington. "These results demonstrate the interconnected nature of NASA's science missions that are getting us closer to answering whether we are indeed alone or not."
The paper from researchers with the Cassini mission, published in the journal Science, indicates hydrogen gas, which could potentially provide a chemical energy source for life, is pouring into the subsurface ocean of Enceladus from hydrothermal activity on the seafloor.
The presence of ample hydrogen in the moon's ocean means that microbes -- if any exist there -- could use it to obtain energy by combining the hydrogen with carbon dioxide dissolved in the water. This chemical reaction, known as "methanogenesis" because it produces methane as a byproduct, is at the root of the tree of life on Earth, and could even have been critical to the origin of life on our planet.
Life as we know it requires three primary ingredients: liquid water; a source of energy for metabolism; and the right chemical ingredients, primarily carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. With this finding, Cassini has shown that Enceladus -- a small, icy moon a billion miles farther from the sun than Earth -- has nearly all of these ingredients for habitability. Cassini has not yet shown phosphorus and sulfur are present in the ocean, but scientists suspect them to be, since the rocky core of Enceladus is thought to be chemically similar to meteorites that contain the two elements.
"Confirmation that the chemical energy for life exists within the ocean of a small moon of Saturn is an important milestone in our search for habitable worlds beyond Earth," said Linda Spilker, Cassini project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The Cassini spacecraft detected the hydrogen in the plume of gas and icy material spraying from Enceladus during its last, and deepest, dive through the plume on Oct. 28, 2015. Cassini also sampled the plume's composition during flybys earlier in the mission. From these observations scientists have determined that nearly 98 percent of the gas in the plume is water, about 1 percent is hydrogen and the rest is a mixture of other molecules including carbon dioxide, methane and ammonia.
The measurement was made using Cassini's Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) instrument, which sniffs gases to determine their composition. INMS was designed to sample the upper atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan. After Cassini's surprising discovery of a towering plume of icy spray in 2005, emanating from hot cracks near the south pole, scientists turned its detectors toward the small moon.
Cassini wasn't designed to detect signs of life in the Enceladus plume -- indeed, scientists didn't know the plume existed until after the spacecraft arrived at Saturn.
"Although we can't detect life, we've found that there's a food source there for it. It would be like a candy store for microbes," said Hunter Waite, lead author of the Cassini study.
The new findings are an independent line of evidence that hydrothermal activity is taking place in the Enceladus ocean. Previous results, published in March 2015, suggested hot water is interacting with rock beneath the sea; the new findings support that conclusion and add that the rock appears to be reacting chemically to produce the hydrogen.
The paper detailing new Hubble Space Telescope findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, reports on observations of Europa from 2016 in which a probable plume of material was seen erupting from the moon's surface at the same location where Hubble saw evidence of a plume in 2014. These images bolster evidence that the Europa plumes could be a real phenomenon, flaring up intermittently in the same region on the moon's surface.
The newly imaged plume rises about 62 miles (100 kilometers) above Europa's surface, while the one observed in 2014 was estimated to be about 30 miles (50 kilometers) high. Both correspond to the location of an unusually warm region that contains features that appear to be cracks in the moon's icy crust, seen in the late 1990s by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Researchers speculate that, like Enceladus, this could be evidence of water erupting from the moon's interior.
"The plumes on Enceladus are associated with hotter regions, so after Hubble imaged this new plume-like feature on Europa, we looked at that location on the Galileo thermal map. We discovered that Europa's plume candidate is sitting right on the thermal anomaly," said William Sparks of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Sparks led the Hubble plume studies in both 2014 and 2016.
The researchers say if the plumes and the warm spot are linked, it could mean water being vented from beneath the moon's icy crust is warming the surrounding surface. Another idea is that water ejected by the plume falls onto the surface as a fine mist, changing the structure of the surface grains and allowing them to retain heat longer than the surrounding landscape.
For both the 2014 and 2016 observations, the team used Hubble's Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) to spot the plumes in ultraviolet light. As Europa passes in front of Jupiter, any atmospheric features around the edge of the moon block some of Jupiter's light, allowing STIS to see the features in silhouette. Sparks and his team are continuing to use Hubble to monitor Europa for additional examples of plume candidates and hope to determine the frequency with which they appear.
NASA's future exploration of ocean worlds is enabled by Hubble's monitoring of Europa's putative plume activity and Cassini's long-term investigation of the Enceladus plume. In particular, both investigations are laying the groundwork for NASA's Europa Clipper mission, which is planned for launch in the 2020s.
"If there are plumes on Europa, as we now strongly suspect, with the Europa Clipper we will be ready for them," said Jim Green, Director of Planetary Science, at NASA Headquarters.
Hubble's identification of a site which appears to have persistent, intermittent plume activity provides a tempting target for the Europa mission to investigate with its powerful suite of science instruments. In addition, some of Sparks' co-authors on the Hubble Europa studies are preparing a powerful ultraviolet camera to fly on Europa Clipper that will make similar measurements to Hubble's, but from thousands of times closer. And several members of the Cassini INMS team are developing an exquisitely sensitive, next-generation version of their instrument for flight on Europa Clipper.
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Physicists conducting research at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) -- the world's most powerful particle accelerator, located on the border of France and Switzerland -- presented more than 100 new results at the 38th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) in Chicago last week.
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory helped design and build key components of the LHC, and collaborate on research at the ATLAS detector, one of the LHC's two large high-energy physics experiments that, in 2012, announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. Brookhaven serves as the United States' host laboratory for ATLAS collaborators across the nation, and handles a large amount of the data processing and distribution to ATLAS collaborators around the world.
Brookhaven physicists also participate in the LHC's Heavy Ion Program at ATLAS, analyzing results from collisions of large nuclei such as lead, much like the gold-gold collisions at Brookhaven's own Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), but at a higher energy. RHIC and the LHC work in complementary ways to explore details of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that existed in the very early universe in an effort to understand its properties over a range of energies and how it evolved to form the visible matter of the universe today. The ICHEP meeting included presentations of heavy-ion data from both colliders.
LHC performance sows seeds for discovery
Following last year's first glimpse of physics at an unprecedented energy level -- colliding two beams of protons at an energy of 13 trillion electron volts (TeV) -- the LHC experiments have now amassed significant amounts of data allowing them to "dive in and explore" the physics at this new energy frontier, according to a press release issued August 5 by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), home to the LHC.
"Thanks to the outstanding performances of the LHC, experiments have already recorded about 5 times more data in 2016 than in 2015, in just a few months of operations," the press release said.
In June, the LHC surpassed its design luminosity -- a measure of the number of collisions in a given time interval, reaching a peak luminosity of about 1 billion collisions per second. This means that even the most rare interactions of subatomic particles at the highest effective energy can potentially occur and be detected to reveal new physics.
Physicists analyzing the large amounts of 13 TeV collision data have already confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson (first discovered in 2012 with a mass of 125 billion electron volts, GeV), and they will use the new data to conduct in-depth studies of this particle's properties. They have also made new precision measurements looking for anomalous particle interactions at high mass, a very sensitive but indirect test for potential physics phenomena that cannot be explained by the existing description of subatomic particles and processes -- a.k.a., the Standard Model of particle physics. They are also looking for signs that new particles predicted by Supersymmetry or other exotic theories "beyond" the Standard Model have been produced.
No compelling evidence for such particles has yet emerged, and one intriguing hint that caused considerable interest in the 2015 LHC data -- a potential "bump" at 750 GeV -- no longer appears in the much more significant 2016 data set, the CERN press release said. The "bump" appears to be a statistical blip.
But there is still much new data to explore.
"We are really looking forward to analyzing in detail the wealth of new data at 13 TeV," said Hong Ma, chair of Brookhaven Lab's Physics Department. "At the same time, we are also working on upgrading the ATLAS detector for operations at even higher luminosities beyond the next two years."
Ma noted that the conference also included presentations of new results from research on neutrinos and in cosmology -- additional areas of high-energy physics where Brookhaven scientists make important contributions.
New insight into quark-gluon plasma
Meanwhile, the four LHC experiments (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb) and the two large RHIC experiments (STAR and PHENIX) presented new results on the exploration of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) -- a state of matter that filled the early universe several millionths of a second after the Big Bang. Both RHIC and the LHC recreate the QGP by smashing together two beams of heavy ions (typically gold at RHIC and lead at the LHC), and explore the heavy ions by colliding them with protons (or deuterons) as well. In the gold-gold and lead-lead collisions, physicists have determined that the high temperatures and densities reached "melt" the protons and neutrons that make up the nuclei to release their constituent quarks and gluons. Careful study has revealed that, even at the higher LHC energy, the QGP flows with extremely low viscosity (relative to its entropy density) -- as it does in the lower-energy, heavy-ion collisions at RHIC.
RHIC physicists first described the remarkable behavior of this "perfect" liquid in 2005, and the heavy-ion community has been exploring its properties ever since. Intriguingly, analysis of results from proton-lead and even proton-proton collisions, as reported by the LHC and RHIC experiments, have shown similar signatures of collective "flow" as found in the larger systems. These studies complement other ways physicists are exploring the properties of the hot nuclear matter, including measurements of how high energy quarks lose energy as they traverse the QGP, and the disappearance of particles consisting of bound heavy quarks and antiquarks, many of which are being shown by the experiments at ICHEP.
"These new results demonstrate that the study of the quark-gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions has a wider relevance than originally expected," said Jiangyong Jia, a scientist with a joint appointment at Brookhaven Lab and Stony Brook University, who participates in both the RHIC and LHC programs.
Advances in computing
In addition to opening new frontiers in science, the new high-energy collisions at the LHC have also stretched the performance of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) well beyond previous records, with more than 25 petabytes of data stored and processed since the beginning of the year. Brookhaven Lab's RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility serves as a Tier-1 computing facility for ATLAS in the U.S., providing a large portion of the overall computing resources for U.S. collaborators and serving as a central hub for storing, processing, and distributing ATLAS experimental data and data from RHIC's experiments among scientists across the country and around the world. By developing innovative ways to keep up with the ever-expanding demands of handling LHC and RHIC data, computational scientists are continually improving on and expanding capabilities for the benefit of all data-intensive scientific endeavors.
Brookhaven Lab's research at RHIC and the LHC is supported in large part by the DOE Office of Science. RHIC is a DOE Office of Science User Facility for nuclear physics research.
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When I became a homeowner several years ago, I thought I had everything I needed to begin my journey: boxes for packing, friends and family for moving, and of course, my design ideas. I didn't realize I was missing the most important thing ever new homeowner needs: patience.
Facing Reality
After moving in, I quickly realized a cold, hard truth: this ain't gonna happen overnight. What was once enough to decorate an entire apartment could barely fill two rooms in my new place. It was time to prioritize and consider three important questions: what items did I need, what rooms did I use the most, and what was my budget?
Focusing My Efforts
Starting out, I only had the budget to perfect three rooms, so I strategically focused my efforts on the spaces that I used the most: my sunroom-slash-living room, my kitchen, and also my guest bathroom. After I narrowed down my priorities, I made a list of "to-dos," including items like repainting the walls, getting decorative accents to fill a bookcase, and buying a new shower curtain. Then, I ever so slowly started checking them off my list.
Embracing the Process
I'm now going on four years in the house, and it has definitely come a long way since those very first few weeks. The sunroom-slash-living room is complete as well as the guest bathroom, but the kitchen still has a couple items patiently waiting to be marked off. Coming to the realization that designing a home is far from a linear process has been one of my biggest takeaways. It evolves as my priorities change and mature.
Acceptance
I've learned that the goal really isn't to finish a room. It is to appreciate the work it takes to make a space your own and to enjoy the process rather than to wish it away. There are still days where I catch myself thinking, "If I just had a rug in here, I would be so much happier with this room." But these thoughts are fleeting because I know that I will get there in time. Loving my house at every stage has been quite the experience, but I can say now that patience has helped me to cherish my in-the-works home more than I ever thought I could.

First, as for the global residential Brass Rods industry, the industry concentration rate is highly dispersed. The top 5 manufacturers have 30.61% sales revenue market share in 2017. The Wieland which has 7.62% sales market share in 2017, is the leader in the Brass Rods industry. The manufacturers following Wieland are Daechang and KME, which respectively has 6.51% and 6.46% sales market share globally.
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Second, the global consumption of Brass Rods products rises up from 2380 K Ton in 2012 to 2840 K Ton in 2017, with CAGR of 4.52%. At the same time, the revenue of world Brass Rods sales market has a rise from 11807.52 M USD to 13683.32 M USD. The reason causes this increase is the growing demand for the Brass Rods products, which is the result of the spurring needs of downstream customers, especially for Automobile.
Third, as for the Brass Rods market, it will still show slow growth, and technological trends in the market will stay stable.
Fourth, market growth for Brass Rods is expected to growth at a CAGR of 3.17% from 2017 to 2022, reaching 16567.95 M USD by 2022.
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